The fatal accident happened close to a year ago and today, the drilling companies involved were found liable for unsafe work environment and defective products ..Here’s the report.

Those were the words of Criselda Rincon, relating to fox 2 news in may of 2009 of the last conversation she would ever have with her husband of 28 years…Sergio Rincon, before he lost his life in a tragic accident while on the job.

The Rincon family of Las Milpas decided to take action against the three companies involved: Nabors drilling who Sergio worked for ,Shell oil company, and Bishop Lifting products.

After three weeks in court and a day and a half of deliberations, the jury’s decided in favor of the Rincon family in the wrongful death suit.

Sergio Rincon is survived by his wife of 28 years, Criselda Rincon and their two children.

With its theme of education and leadership or the future…The city hopes people from all over the valley enjoy the event and its many activities, which include a parade, rodeo, competitive livestock events, and the many, many attractions that are scheduled daily.

The Rio Grande valley livestock show has continued to grow each year, and now ranks as one of the top 10 in the state. Organizers are expecting over 120 thousands people at this years event.

Driving while impaired by alcohol or drugs is not worth the risk nor the money.

If you are arrested for a dwi offense, you may be fined up to 2 thousand dollars, spend 180 days in jail… Your Texas driver’s license could be suspended for one year… In addition to the fine, a first dwi conviction results in a one thousand dollar surcharge, paid annually for three years.

According to DPS officials there is absolutely no valid excuse for driving irresponsibly.

Remember that the consequences of drinking can last much longer than your hangover and can change the rest of your life.

17 year old Arturo Estrada and Rolando Martinez were taken into custody by Mercedes police after they allegedly ignited paper towels and bathroom tissue and tossed them through the buildings ceiling.

The incident was reported Wednesday afternoon by school staff at the Mercedes alternative education center located south on Ohio street.

The investigation led to the arrest of both teenagers who have been arraigned on arson of a place of assembly.

Estrada and Martinez were booked into the Hidalgo county detention center on a 25 thousand dollar bond.

The new language will “warn about reduced effectiveness in patients who are poor metabolizers of Plavix,” the FDA said in a notice on its website.

Poor metabolizers are people whose bodies do not effectively convert Plavix to its active form.

Plavix is the second-best selling drug in the world. It loses patent protection in 2012.

Researchers have been studying an alternative drug for patients who cannot benefit from Plavix and details of their findings are expected to be released at a meeting of heart specialists next week.

(AP) Lindsey Vonn finished with a fitting flourish, the perfect way to cap a nearly perfect season, one chock full of victories, medals, trophies – and injuries.

Now the American is looking forward to some well-earned time away from the slopes.

A day after bruising her right knee in a crash, and skiing with her broken right pinkie protected by a green molded cast, Vonn clinched her third consecutive World Cup overall title Friday with a U.S.-record 33rd career race win in a super-G at Garmisch-Partenkirchen, Germany.

“My body is completely – pretty much completely – broken,” she said.

Vonn described the pep talk she gave herself Friday this way: “I said, ‘OK, you’ve done this before. You’ve dealt with this pain. Just go out there and do your best.’ It was, for me, the best way to end such an amazing season.”

Amazing, indeed.

The list of accomplishments goes on and on:

-11 World Cup race victories in 2009-10, breaking Vonn’s own American record of nine, set last season;

-her downhill, super-G and super-combined championships make Vonn the first American to win three World Cup discipline titles in a single season;

-Bode Miller held the U.S. mark of 32 career World Cup wins until Vonn tied it in Crans-Montana, Switzerland, last weekend, then surpassed it Friday, and she is still only 25 years old;

-Vonn is only the fifth woman in World Cup history with three overall titles in a row, and the first to do it since Petra Kronberger of Austria in 1990-92.

“To dominantly win three in a row is pretty impressive,” said Ted Ligety of Park City, Utah, who claimed the World Cup giant slalom season title by tying for third in the men’s race Friday in Germany.

Oh, and let’s not forget the downhill gold medal and super-G bronze Vonn won at the Vancouver Games last month, despite a badly bruised right shin she feared might keep her out of the Olympics altogether.

Add that to her litany of recent injuries, including a banged-up arm in December, a battered back and that broken finger from a crash at the Olympics, and the leg she hurt in a fall Thursday.

“I’m happy to be done with the year and finally get a chance to heal my body,” Vonn said, “because I’m definitely hurting after this long season.”

She’ll skip Saturday’s World Cup slalom and head home to Vail, Colo., to get everything checked out by a doctor and start resting her right knee, which needs about four to six weeks to get better.

Vonn was told to stay off skis for the next several months, but she might allow herself the treat of trying out the trail on Vail Mountain that was recently renamed in her honor.

“I can walk,” she said, “but I can’t do much else.”

Well, except ski – and do so better than any other woman in the world right now.

Yet Vonn is already thinking about how she can improve, how she can “keep trying to ski fast; ski faster and faster.”

For one thing, there are the two events in which she did not win the World Cup discipline title this season: giant slalom and slalom.

“There’s a lot that still motivates me. I always try to improve upon every season. It’s going to be definitely hard to improve on this season, but looking forward, I’m going to try and improve my GS and slalom,” she said. “That definitely lacked this year, and I know I can pick up some slack on those two.”

There is time for that later in 2010.

For the moment, though, Vonn is entertaining other plans.

“We’re going to go on vacation for a long, long time,” she said with a snicker. “I’m not sure where, but someplace with a beach.”

(AP)  Madonna doesn’t think a wife should withhold sex from a sloppy husband.

But she believes a wife should dispose of her late husband’s prosthetic leg to spare the feelings of the wife’s current mate.

This was some of Madonna’s relationship advice on NBC’s “The Marriage Ref,” where she joined actor-comedians Larry David and Ricky Gervais as a guest panelist on Thursday’s edition.

The show invites its panel of “experts” to help analyze real-life disputes between married couples, mostly for laughs. Host Tom Papa, aka The Marriage Ref, makes the final call.

In one case, Mindy Goldman was offering sexual favors to Alan, her husband of 28 years, if he would clean up their messy basement.

A good idea? “I think it’s weird that she wants him to be clean so that they can be dirty,” cracked Madonna.

Gervais wondered, “Could they combine the sex with the housework?”

Then Susan and David Harper, married for three years, were seen in their house squabbling over possessions left over from their past relationships. Susan wanted her husband to get rid of the sofa where David and his ex-wife might have had hanky-panky, while David complained about Susan hanging on to the ashes and prosthetic leg of Don, her late husband.

Madonna’s swift solution: “He gets rid of the couch, she gets rid of the leg.”

“This is easily the most uncomfortable hour I’ve ever spent in my life,” sighed Larry David in the midst of the debate.

“Why?” Madonna retorted. “Because you’re sitting next to a woman who’s standing up to you?”

“The Marriage Ref,” which premiered last week, has Jerry Seinfeld as a creator and producer.

SANTA ANA, Calif. (AP) — Orange County prosecutors say they’ll file a lawsuit against Toyota because of continuing problems with their vehicles.

District Attorney says the company continues to endanger the public through sale of defective vehicles and deceptive business practices.

Rackauckas is expected to announce the lawsuit Friday morning.

A message left with Toyota was not immediately returned.

Toyota has recalled more than 6 million vehicles in the United States because of acceleration problems in multiple models and braking issues in the Prius. Regulators have linked 52 deaths to crashes allegedly caused by accelerator problems.

At least 89 class-action lawsuits have been filed against the Japanese auto giant, which could cost them $3 billion or more.